Tracking a Killer Using Open Source Tools: Protecting Against Vicarious Trauma
Learn crucial trauma-informed investigation techniques from two experts. Investigator and historian, Annsar Shahhoud, spoke about using a false identity on social media to befriend the perpetrator of a 2013 Syrian civilian massacre and capture his confession, as discussed in the podcast episode “Searching for the Shadow Man.”
We also heard from psychologist Brock Chisholm, founder of Trauma Treatment International, about conducting digital investigations in a trauma-informed way and how to recognize the impact of trauma on investigators.
- Annsar Shahhoud
- Independent scholar – “Assad’s Military Doctor on Trial: The Case of Alaa Mousa”
- Brock Chisholm
- Clinical Psychologist and Director, Criterion A Psychology Services, Founder and Clinical Lead of Trauma Treatment International, “‘Everything is Forced. Nothing is by Consent’: Medical and Psychological Professionals’ Participation in Torture at the CIA ‘Darkness’ Prison”
- Moderated by Jess Peake
- Assistant Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, Director of the International and Comparative Law Program at UCLA Law